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character names in sequential order starting at 1 and ending
at 256.
The name of the encoding vector is next. It appears in the
Encoding popup found in Font Info and Generate Font Files
dialogs.
The next field, 256, represents the number of character
names in the encoding vector. You can have more than 256
names, but never less.
The final entry in the string is the “1”. This indicates that
you want the encoding name to show up in the dialogs. If
you do not want it to show, set this to 0. We have done this
for TrueType glyph encoding.
Now that you have seen the format for setting up your
encoding, open id 386 to make your own custom encoding
vector. Do not make any changes to id 384! This was
just a rehearsal so that you can understand the format
required.
4. Back in id 386, the resource opens with a 0 in one
field. To add new fields in ResEdit, select the last
line (in this case “2) ******) and press Command-K.
You will need to add 4 lines (type Command-K four
times).
5. After adding all the fields, go back to string 1, select
the 0, and begin entering your data. The first field
will be 1, for the number of encoding vectors in this
resource.
6. The second field will contain the id of the new
resource you will make which will contain all the
character names. Select a resource id which has
not been used.
7. Here is an example of an encoding vector (STR# 386):
1 number of encoding vectors
21321 id for resource containing character names
Cyrillic name of encoding vector
256 number of chars
1 makes the encoding name show up in
thedialogs
8. Close the resource id 386.
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